It would be helpful if there was a dice mode for Fudge dice. Fudge dice are 6 sided, with 2 +, 2 -, and two blank. It would even be cooler if the total would be added together (+1, -1, 0) and given. Two suggestions on how to have this be called.
4dF (Rolls 4 fudge dice)
Fudge! (Same as 4df)
Th...
First: re: FAE/Core design/philosophy: Because both are PWYL to download, I think that a minimal amount of repetition between the two documents is deliberate. FAE refers to Core where it's most required, and Core provides the meaty context for FAE's skeleton.
FAE doesn't have to be self-sufficient in its presentation of philosophy, because Core is sitting right there. FAE is self-sufficient in its mechanics, and that's its role.
Second: @Problematic: If an NPC spellcaster can only use spells which change the shape of things, including himself and other people, what word would you use to describe that in his high concept?
I also need to fancy up the typing indicator script at some point
I think I'm going to aggravate @BESW and have it add a row to chat. But maybe with a middle ground of having all notifications group into the chat row, instead of one per user
Eh, I'm okay with it. The border makes the icons jiggle around a little which catches my attention, and it's not always important to me to see at all times who's typing. If I'm curious, I can exercise my eyes a bit.
Also at some point we should probably enter into some sort of written agreement. Not so we have a binding enforceable contract (that's going to be difficult to enforce anyway), but so we're... well, on the same page. So that we have a thing that says "this is a collaborative project, there's a bunch of IP here (our code) and here's how we'll handle ownership over it," and so on. Just so we have it in paper and can refer back to it in the future.
So that we don't have unspoken understandings we assume the other person also understands!
And what will happen when it comes to hosting costs, etc.
And what happens when it comes to any sort of paid features that are actually income-generating! (though not necessarily profit-generating)
Oh. As far as code, I'm going to open source the API under MIT license. You're welcome to consume it however you please. I hope lots of people consume it. For hosting, I have it running on Heroku, and it's not costing me anything for the foreseeable future.
Same; I'm not sure how best to accomplish that though.
Take a development approach similar to Roll20, releasing a thing and upgrading it and offering stuff that takes extra work as a means of paying for the whole thing? Release it as an open-source free service people can contribute to, even though it might stay relatively small-scale?
Currently I have the workspace (the area everything sits in) as an article, the cards themselves as sections, and the various sections of the cards as divs.
I'm wondering if the cards should be articles and the sections should be sections.
Consequences are now exactly like any other aspect, the character's aspect list and consequence list are both just two AspectLists, and both are output using the same template.
Yes I guess I could do that! There are things I want to do that might be compatible with that:
- When editing stunts, click a "new stunt" bar to add a new stunt slot to fill out. Also, able to delete stunts.
- When dealing with aspects of any kind, able to quickly: edit the name, add/remove tags, and increase/decrease the tag quantity (if Stellata has an aspect tagged twice, it should say something like: Stellata (2))
I also need a Temporary Aspects portion at the bottom for, say, aspects I can place on someone else in a create advantage action.
And since the Luggage's card is stretching out of view, I should probably give these cards a two-column (or three-column) layout?
If the room has wide columns, the easiest way to make them narratively important (IE, have people climb them, duck behind them, knock them over...) is to give the scene the aspect Wide Columns.
Zone aspects are good for three major things, in my opinion.
- Flavor. Mossy Ground and Wide Trees sets the scene.
- Strategy. If different zones have different aspects, then moving between zones becomes more interesting.
- Plot. Why does Herman's school have Too Many Windows?
The problem with zone aspects is overcrowding. You want to encourage the expenditure of FP on aspects which are attached to characters, so the FP flows instead of vanishing. Also, too many choices slows things down and adds frustration.
... inserts an empty element in the middle which breaks up the original element.
In addition, holding left or right so the caret hits the beginning or end of a contenteditable box means the box loses focus. I can't go to the end and hit backspace. I can, however, go to before the last character and hit delete, then my caret is sitting at the end of the box just fine. If I move it away then back again however it behaves as normal (loses focus)
Chrome seems to be fine but pasting leads to linebreaks for whatever reason
So I have been reading Spirit of the Century, and it points out that Average (+1) is the skill level of most people at what they do professionally. That concept is horrifying to me.
@Problematic Maybe.... the heading elements are doing their own strange things and they're supposed to be block-level. Try using the inspector to make, say, the "Approaches" heading contenteditable - then copy and paste.
Doing that in chrome crashes the page. Wow. Okay. Maybe I should stick with doing this strictly within DIVs.
Generally, the job a person does to make a living --especially in that setting-- probably isn't the love of their life, nor does it require great skill.
Factory workers with a skill over +1 are basically wasting talent.
W: Listen, Joe. What's this Dede tells me about the catalogs? J: I've only got twelve. W: How'd you let us get down to twelve? J: I told you. W: When? J: Three weeks ago. Then two weeks ago. W: Did you tell me last week? J: No. W: Why not? J: I don't know. I thought you knew. W: Not good enough, Joe! Not nearly good enough! I put you in charge of the entire advertising library-- J: You mean, this room. W: --I gave you carte blanche how to deal with the materials in here-- J: You put the orders into the printer, Mr. Waturi, not me. That's how you wanted it.
@Problematic: A span element with contenteditable: bugs galore. Div element with display:inline: only a bug where reaching the end in Firefox makes it lose focus (and not the beginning, like with spans). Div element with display:inline-block works fine.
Essentially, at the end of a scene, anyone involved has to defend with Will at +2 or they forget that you exist, but I'm not sure how to word that Fate-style.
@Problematic Okay, this is weird and I don't know if it actually works, but I would let you have an aspect that did nothing except make you nearly impossible to remember, and call it a passive obstacle.
A few thoughts: unless your player characters are supposed to be on par with Sherlock Holmes, solving crimes based on nothing more than clues available at the scene, there should be quite a bit of legwork and talking involved in an investigation. It sounds like you're looking for a closed room mu...
He's a totally ordinary Chicago news journalist who accidentally discovered that the world contains terrifying supernatural powers and creatures.
Every time he discovers that a story he's investigating has a supernatural cause, he takes it on himself--as the only guy who knows--to go out and trash the vampire/ghost/demon/whatever.
He has no special training, no special knowledge beyond "some legends are true," no special powers beyond those of a good journalist.
Occasionally he finds an expert like a white witch or a professor of mythology who can clue him in on the beast's weakness, but most of the time he has to puzzle it out himself.
And like you say, most of it is legwork.
Mundane clues like feathers left by a shapeshifted raven, and a lot of talking to hobos and crackpots and dumdums to piece together what's going on.
He usually also throws in some bookwork, hitting the libraries and universities to get specialized knowledge like tracking down what a particular symbol is.
The Kolchak TV show makes up for it with montages, and by having the interviews be really funny.
Like the insecticide-spraying guy who eats his sandwich while spraying, because he figures with his job, what's the point in worrying about a bit of spray on his sandwich?
It would be helpful if there was a dice mode for Fudge dice. Fudge dice are 6 sided, with 2 +, 2 -, and two blank. It would even be cooler if the total would be added together (+1, -1, 0) and given. Two suggestions on how to have this be called.
4dF (Rolls 4 fudge dice)
Fudge! (Same as 4df)
Th...
